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I think by delaying the season, players and the football staff basically have to show they can maintain their bubble with the regular students returning to campus. It makes it a much easier decision to say football can go on or not if they can or can't maintain keeping the virus away from the team.
I just don't see that as possible. Players have to go to classes -- or at least they will/should at some schools. And some players will want to go. Not the guys who are just waiting for the draft, but the guys who actually want to learn something and get a degree.
Centralize their dorm and dining away from the rest of the students. Getting everyone on an online or independent study class schedule.
That only works for those schools willing to lower those standards just for athletes (tough argument at schools that value academics), and for those players who really don't care about their educations. And I think it's much more likely to happen at the very limited number of schools in contention for a conference or national championship than at other school.
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